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title: The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 9

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The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office.

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**What happens:** hang up, enter · **To what, where:** lamp, watchman

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:133:9
# text = The lamp had first been hung up on that very evening that the watchman, then a robust young man, had entered upon the duties of his office.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	robust	robust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the lamp |  |  | evening | first *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | the watchman and a robust young man |  |  |  | upon the duties of man's office | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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